> The world is much more inter-connected than it was then. The cost of a war with China is orders of magnitude more than the cost of a war with Germany. "econo

> The world is much more inter-connected than it was then. The cost of a war with China is orders of magnitude more than the cost of a war with Germany. "economic interdependence prevents wars" was commonly accepted to be true in the 1910s, right up until the outbreak of World War I